My name is Lanie. This fanfiction account was created to indulge my secret anime/manga/gaming fangirl side. Somewhere along the way, my love for writing decided to peak its bashful head out and sheepishly bare itself for the world to behold.

I am 19 years old and a sophomore in college. I'm majoring in Psychology with a minor in English. I hope to study abroad in the near future. Currently, I am attempting to teach myself Japanese, in hopes of traveling to Japan. If my motivation wanes and I cannot do this in the next year or two, Australia would be just as lovely.

I work two jobs during the summer and one during the school year while taking a full load of courses. I also like to play water polo for my university and make bad decisions with my friends, most of which we don't remember the following day. So I'm pretty busy, but that doesn't stop me from getting on tumblr as much as possible and keeping up to date with all my fandoms. Priorities, of course.

I ship many pairings from many different fandoms. If you really want to know specific ones (other than the obvious ones I write about), check out my Favorite Stories list down below. It has a nice variety. My shipping works like mood swings - one day I'll be completely immersed in a certain ship, reading as much fanfiction as possible while looking up fanart on tumblr, then the next day it'll have run its course and I'll move on to another one. The simplest of things can trigger my swing from one ship to another - a quote, a beautiful piece of fanart, an update in the manga - anything. I can't control it and I don't want to.

However, one pairing above all else holds a truly special place in my shipper heart.

NaruSakuSasu OT3.

I honestly believe that Team 7 cannot function - won't function - properly or healthily without all three members. They need each other. They complete each other. They love each other.

At least that's what I like to tell myself. You won't convince me otherwise.

The only fandoms that I will most likely ever write about will be Naruto and Kingdom Hearts. I've done a lot of soul searching as to why this is, and I've finally come up with the answer.

Kingdom Hearts came out in 2002, when I was eight years old. I was around nine when my sister and I first rented the game from Blockbuster and played it (which took us way too long and we had to end up buying it). I was twelve years old when I watched my first episode of Naruto on Cartoon Network, and about a year later I discovered the manga. I was very young when I became a part of these fandoms (even then I was a fangirl). I grew up with them. They helped me through hard times.

I read fanfiction like a fiend. I had always loved to read, but fanfiction was like an exotic flavor I had never tasted before and could not get enough of. Fanfiction was a huge factor in honing my writing to where it is today.

Needless to say, Naruto and Kingdom Hearts are engrained into my very being now. They will always be a part of me. I know the story lines and characters like my own family, like the streets in my town. My writing is heavily based on my own feelings and thoughts - therefore, I can easily write about these fandoms and their respective characters. My feelings are their feelings, and vice versa.

As much as I love the other fandoms and pairings I am in and support, they will never be a part of me like Naruto and Kingdom Hearts. They came too late in my life, when I was already grown up and had my character development.

But this is just me being sappy.

"This sentence has five words. Here are five more words. Five word sentences are fine. But several together become monotonous. Listen to what is happening. The writing is getting boring. The sound of it drones. It's like a stuck record. The ear demands some variety. Now listen. I vary the sentence length, and I create music. Music. The writing sings. It has a pleasant rhythm, a lilt, a harmony. I use short sentences. And I use sentences of medium length. And sometimes, when I am certain the reader is rested, I will engage him with a sentence that burns with energy and builds with all the impetus of a crescendo, the roll of the drums, and the crash of the cymbals - sounds that say listen to this, it is important."

She was dramatic. He was dynamic. She was precise. He was impulsive. He was James, and she was Lily, and one day they shared a kiss, but before that they shared many arguments, for he was cocky, and she was sweet, and matters of the heart require time.

One banished prince. One feared Fire Lord. One red string of fate binding a young waterbender's destiny to each. In a Zutara epic that moves beyond love, beyond fate, we begin with nothing more than a simple question: What if Zuko joined the team following "The Chase?" But when you change one thing, you change everything.

Ba Sing Se has fallen and Katara has been captured by the Fire Nation; a more adult take on the potential progression of S3. AU series of interconnected one-shots. Zutara. Rated for lemons and general darkness.

For want of a nail, Azula and Sokka meet as children and discover some strange similarities. But will revenge, racism, and self-hatred keep them from becoming friends, and possibly more? A tale of emotion and suspense of which Romeo and Juliet wish they were worthy.

Naruto never asked to wake up in a world where everything he knew did not exist. He wants to go home - but is home the past from which he came from, or by the side of the girl he fell in love with? AU. Time-travel.

Sakura finds Sasuke again in Wind Country five years after the war, when he is supposed to be dead and she is supposed to be beyond caring. Neither have been very good at meeting expectations. — SasuSaku

Years after his desertion, Haruno Sakura realizes that she and Uchiha Sasuke never did have an ending. But on a stormy, rainy night, as she hangs on the verge of death, she realizes that they never had a beginning either.

It's simple... just answer the question. What does it cost when you give your light to someone? Self-sacrifice still ends with the word 'sacrifice'. A dark look at the cost, and strength, of love. Tifa/Cloud

He wanted to keep her, even though he was not supposed to. He promised her freedom, and she promised him sanity in his own household. She kept her part of the bargain, but he found a way not to keep his. Toph & Aang. Taang. RATED M. COMPLETE.

Cloud wishes on falling stars, but Tifa wishes on a thousand origami cranes. Would any of those wishes come true? A four-part fic that spans FFVII and the Compilation. Story notes inside. Nominated for the 2010 Genesis Awards; not shorlisted.

COMPLETE - Almost 4 years after the war. Aang is engaged to Katara and is up to Zuko to teach him the facts of life. Yep, the bees and the birds. Crazy kings, bananas and the ultimate contest for the hand of a reluctant maiden. Zutara/Taang

Naruto dies and then wakes up as a twelve-year-old genin. He discovers that the shadow clone technique duplicates his soul each time he uses it, and he is cursed to relive the tragedy that is his life over and over again for every soul he had duplicated.

Sasuke is back. Naruto has joined ANBU. Sakura is spending more time in the hospital than in the field. Team 7 struggles to redefine itself, because sometimes you don't know what you really want after all.

With Naruto gone on his training journey with Jiraiya, Sakura finds that she's falling deeper and deeper into darkness without his cheerful presence. So she tries to figure out how he was able to see such a beautiful world, when all she saw is an ugly one

IchiRuki. When Ichigo finds out a devastating secret Rukia has been hiding, will they be able to reconcile and move foreward when the path ahead of them has been closed, or will they find a new path on their own.

Team 7 was forever in their formation through life. They had everything of each other, but never all of Kakashi. But that was okay, they loved him anyways. A look at Team 7's life:Hesitation, Tears, and Sacrafice that would lead to the end.

AU. When Naruto and Sakura learn that their favorite manga, Sasuke, has been put on hiatus, they are devastated. On one fateful night they find a young man unconscious in the middle of street, only to discover its none other than Sasuke Uchiha, the main character from the series. Has a fictional character come to life? Team 7 love, eventual NaruSakuSasu OT3. Don't like, don't read.

Her blood everywhere - on the weapon, on the ground, on his clothes. She sacrificed herself just to save him, despite all the sins he's committed. As her lips form a heartbreakingly beautiful smile, Sasuke can only ask, "Why?" One-shot.

Sora awoke that morning in Kairi's embrace, his head resting on her arm and his face in the crook of her neck. He smiled, closing his eyes and wanting to go back to sleep, for he had never had such joy and sweetdreams as he did when held by Kairi.